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To Pres Lincoln From RH Milroy Date Unk

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Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that some
time subsequent to the evacuation of Winchester
I was deprived of my command and placed
under arrest.. I learned form a letter addressed
me at Balt. by you that this orginated in
my refusal to obey the order of my superior
officer. I asked for a Court of Inquiry and on
Aug 4th 1863 Special Order No. 346 calling
such a Court was issued from the War
D’pt by your command.

To the Court as thus organized I entered my
protest. It will be observed that Special
Order No. 346 calls upon this court not only
to investigate the facts but to pronounce an
opinion on them to say “what officer or officers
were in fault” and makes the result of its labors
a judgment directly effecting me, who of counse=
quence appears before it in the light of a defendant

I claim then all the rights of a defendant
and call attention to the law governing Courts
of this character which provides that an officer
shall not be tried by officers inferior in rank unless
the exigencies of the service are such that the
proper officers cannot be obtained. As this is
not the case we having now some fourteen
Major Generals without Command,

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Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that some
time subsequent to the evacuation of Winchester
I was deprived of my command and placed
under arrest.. I learned form a letter addressed
me at Balt. by you that this orginated in
my refusal to obey the order of my superior
officer. I asked for a Court of Inquiry and on
Aug 4th 1863 Special Order No. 346 calling
such a Court was issued from the War
D’pt by your command.

To the Court as thus organized I entered my
protest. It will be observed that Special
Order No. 346 calls upon this court not only
to investigate the facts but to pronounce an
opinion on them to say “what officer or officers
were in fault” and makes the result of its labors
a judgment directly effecting me, who of counse=
quence appears before it in the light of a defendant

I claim then all the rights of a defendant
and call attention to the law governing Courts
of this character which provides that an officer
shall not be tried by officers inferior in rank unless
the exigencies of the service are such that the
proper officers cannot be obtained. As this is
not the case we having now some fourteen
Major Generals without Command,

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This item is owned by the Jasper County Public Library. Permission to publish or reproduce this item is required and must be obtained from the Director of the Jasper County Public Library, Rensselaer, Indiana. Please visit www.myjcpl.org for more information.